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Anyone walking around Glasgow in the coming weeks should not be alarmed if they see American street signs rather than the British ones they are used to.

This is because the Scottish city is temporarily being turned into Philadelphia so it can be used as the location for World War Z, the new zombie movie starring Brad Pitt.

Stars and stripes flags are being raised above buildings and fake store fronts are being brought in to turn Glasgow into an all-American metropolis, albeit

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Anyone heading in to Leicester on Saturday (June 18th 2011) may have been forgiven for thinking they were on the set of an apocalypse movie.

It all started when a 'concerned citizen' – who had obviously been watching The Walking Dead and thinking it was a documentary – wrote to the council to ask if the city would be prepared for an attack by the undead.

Leicester City Council's Lynn Wyeth kindly wrote back to the unnamed person and admitted the conurbation does not

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An advertising company has been forced to apologise after erecting a poster of zombie TV series The Walking Dead – on the side of a funeral parlour.

The giant billboard was put up in Consett, County Durham to coincide with the launch of the programme on Channel 5 last week, but workmen failed to notice its unfortunate location.

A few eyebrows were raised and passersby enjoyed a good chortle before the blunder was realised.

Co-operative Funeralcare said it was a little

When a group of students dressed up in Halloween fancy dress for a recent bar crawl, they probably hoped it would be called scary or deliciously repulsive.

However, they probably didn't expect their zombie fancy dress costumes to be labelled racist by some over-zealous bouncers.

The Sheffield University Physics Society had been wandering around town and going into various nightspots before they were turned away from Population

Kids at a nursery in Newcastle are to don children's fancy dress as part of a forthcoming charity event this week.

The Croft Day Care nursery is to allow children to dress up in colourful costumes as part of Bring a Pound to Work Day, which is being organised on Friday October 15th 2010 by the Douglas Macmillan Hospice.

Parents of the fancy dress-clad youngsters will pay a pound to the charity drive, while staff members will also be making their own contributions by dressing down on the day, reports the Sentinel.

Senior nursery nurse Joanne